Word: faa
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...trick of shaky, non-sked airlines to stretch the time between mandatory engine inspections), flying more hours during a given period than safety regulations permit, falsifying a manifest to show a copilot who was not aboard, etc. After a formal hearing, his license was suspended last July by FAA, and Arctic-Pacific was fined $16,000. Chesher appealed and, pending a review, he was free to fly. When rescue workers recovered his body from the wreckage, they found it strapped in the right-hand cockpit seat. Despite the fog, Donald Chesher had apparently turned over the pilot's seat...
...small comfort to San Luis Obispo that the FAA belatedly grounded all Arctic-Pacific planes. Through the week, while its flags hung at half mast, the town was as glum as the cool, grey fog that rolled in from the Pacific. Cal Poly remembered Halfback Vic Hall, an alternate 400-meter sprinter on the 1960 Olympic team. Vic wore contact lenses and had not wanted to play football, but the weak team needed him for his exceptional speed, so he had agreed to play. There was Curtis Hill, an end from Bakersfield, a smiling, studious, religious boy who had walked...
...Ponton de Arce, regional air traffic chief for the FAA, supervises the Oakland center. Only 25 years ago, in Newark, De Arce had helped install the world's first air traffic control center-at a cost of $158. "We kept track of planes by moving little bits of slate around on a map," he recalled last week. "Sometimes I get nostalgic for those days when you flew around anywhere you wanted to. Everything moves just a little too fast today...
...most beautiful flying airplane we've ever had." Nonetheless, Mississippi Democrat John Williams sternly announced that his House Subcommittee on Transportation and Aeronautics would start hearings this week on the crash. Republican Steven Derounian of New York and Thomas J. Love, Massachusetts Democrat, called for an investigation. FAA inspectors sealed the four engines under water before hauling them up for study. Indiana's Democratic Senator Vance Hartke called again for grounding the Electra. Egged on by nervous newsmen who must travel with him on his campaign, Democratic Vice-Presidential Candidate Lyndon Johnson switched from an Electra...
...basis of Paynter's findings, the FAA now assumes that the plane flew through a flock of starlings, some of which jammed the engine. The agency expects to find bits of birds in the engine when it is salvaged from...